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27Dec18

State commission approves Soyuz carrier rocker for Thursday's launch

The state commission has approved the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket for Thursday's launch from the Vostochny spaceport, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.

"The state commission decided that the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket is ready for refuel and launch scheduled for 5:07am Moscow time on December 27," Roscosmos wrote on its Twitter account.

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket will deliver to the orbit two Russian remote sensing satellites Kanopus-V 5 and Kanopus-V 6, as well as 26 small foreign spacecraft. The upcoming launch will be the last one in the Russian space program for this year.

[Source: Itar Tass, Moscow, 27Dec18]
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